Miwa Yoshida

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|name = Miwa Yoshida

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|background = solo_singer

| native_name = 吉田美和

| native_name_lang = ja

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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1965|5|6}}

|birth_place = Ikeda, Hokkaido, Japan

|instruments = Vocals

|genre = Pop, new wave, jazz, R&B

|occupation = Singer-songwriter

|years_active = 1988–present

|label = Universal Music Japan (as Dreams Come True),
DCT records (solo),
Toshiba EMI (Funk The Peanuts)

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|current_member_of = {{hlist|Dreams Come True|{{ill|Funk The Peanuts|ja|FUNK THE PEANUTS}}}}

|website = {{URL|www.dctgarden.com/MIWA/index.html}}

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{{nihongo|Miwa Yoshida|吉田美和|Yoshida Miwa|born 6 May 1965 in Ikeda, Hokkaido}} is a Japanese musician, and the lead singer for the band Dreams Come True. She is also a founding member with bassist Masato Nakamura and keyboardist Takahiro Nishikawa.

Yoshida also fronts a Dreams Come True side-project, Funk the Peanuts, and has released two solo albums, Beauty and Harmony and Beauty and Harmony 2. Both albums took their name from the English translation of the name Miwa.

Life and music career

In 2004, Yoshida married videographer Ken Sueda, who had shot several of Dreams Come True's Wonderland concert videos. Sueda died in 2007 of brain cancer, and it came out at the time that the marriage was never officially recorded.{{Cite web|url=http://www.japan-zone.com/news/2007/10/01/dcts_yoshida_miwa_loses_husband.shtml|title = DCT's Yoshida Miwa Loses Husband | Japan Zone}}

In March 2012, she announced that she had married Juon Kamata, the lead singer of the Japanese rock band Fuzzy Control.{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h2SSvwDWjxAcbdrS-_DGpBKDqvKw?docId=CNG.c676d73390ed4daee014039173b12149.2b1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326040144/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h2SSvwDWjxAcbdrS-_DGpBKDqvKw?docId=CNG.c676d73390ed4daee014039173b12149.2b1|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 March 2012|title=Japan pop icon marries man almost 20 years younger|accessdate=21 March 2012}}